Jacksonville Journal-Courier Friday September 15, 2023
A municipal worker in suburban St. Louis has been arrested after allegedly running over and seriously injuring a TV station photojournalist as reporters hurled questions at a village leader who sought refuge in a public works truck, reports the Jacksonville Journal-Courier. Fox 2 cameraman Wade Smith was with reporter Mitch McCoy in the village of Hillsdale, Missouri, to investigate why the local authority there had been threatening to tow multiple cars for not displaying village permit stickers, notes PetaPixel.
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CREATIVE PHOTO AWARDS 2023 Friday September 15, 2023
The Siena Awards has announced the winners of its Creative Photo Awards 2023 competition, with Frank Zhang taking the “Photographer of the Year” title for his image “Aesthetics from Africa,” The photo, featuring model Sonia Barbie Tucker, steps away from the fashion industry’s Eurocentric notions of beauty, notes the contest. Photographers from 133 countries entered this year’s contest across nine categories. Winning images will be on view at the Magazzini del Sale in Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, September 30 to November 19.
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DP Review Friday September 15, 2023
Fujifilm’s newly flagship medium-format mirrorless camera, the GFX100 II, is $2,500 cheaper than its predecessor while sporting a number of improvements, notes DIY Photography.Those upgrades include a revamped 102-megapixel sensor and the ability to shoot 4K 60p as well as 8K 30p video. The camera also adds AI-based autofocus with the same sort of subject detection as in the Fuji X-H2S. There’s also native Frame.io integration for easy cloud backups while you shoot. DP Review has a review.
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The Atlantic Friday September 15, 2023
Officials say more than 2,000 people died and many more injured in the magnitude at 6.8 earthquake that devastated Morocco on Sept. 8. Rescue efforts are complicated by the fact that the quake struck remote, mountainous villages, notes NPR, which features a visual report on the quake’s aftermath from photographer Carol Guzy and others. Meanwhile, The Atlantic has photographs documenting the aftermath of floods in Libya caused by record-setting rainfall on Sept. 10. More than 5,100 people have been killed.
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